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discursive

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1. discursive - Adjective

2. discursive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.

Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. Georges Bataille

It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface. Edwin Abbott Abbott

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. A. R. Ammons

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. Alan Bennett

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Alan Bennett

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. Juan Goytisolo

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